nihongonotame
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From: Africa
Registered: 2012-02-23
Posts: 38
Hello everyone, I should start first by saying thanks to all people working on the board.Because I could at least enjoy a 2 weeks travel to japan where writing the Kanji had helped me a lot.And this forum did a great favor to me.And I also gave a try on N2 last week was the exam I think at least I could answer some correct stuff hopping my guesses were all correct lol.
I'm going for sure to make a little pause to my learning but before I'd like to talk about some issues I'm getting through .
I'll start with the kanji deck, well after about about 8 months I'd say I'm pretty much comfortable with writing the Kanji in my RTK deck.
But once the intervals get bigger I have some difficulties remembering it especially after an interval of 6 months.
In this case even pushing the hard button will get you through an interval of 4 months so recently I just Push again for any kanji that I feel having a hardship to recall even if it's a 5months interval one.
Anki is surely about not forgetting but for someone who wants to master the writing of kanji even if as hobby?I don't want to think of the story when hearing the keyword or something else I'd like to visionise directly the whole kanji in my mind as fast as possible.
I was thinking also about turning from a simple RTK deck to a Kanji deck oriented Vocabulary I'd like to have for exemple on the forward card some well known kanji word That I could rewrite rather than writing the kanji in RTK deck in single.
I think It might get me more accustomed to write 3 Kanji and 2 kanji words.
I'm just keeping writing japanese as a hobby so maybe with this aim I can work on JLPT N1 kanji level.?
For the vocabulary deck, I'm thinking of writing it apart tough, anyway any comment suggestion or tips on improving the quality of the RTK deck is welcome!
Personally, my goal is reading, then speaking, but writing isn't on my list. I did RTK 1 but the reviews bored me to death so I stopped reviewing about a month after I finished adding new cards. I don't regret it either. Although I think being able to write the kanji is a cool skill, its not altogether practical for someone like me who probably wont end up living in Japan. Somewhere in my studies, I found a study method that is really working for me. I find a text like a novel or something (as long as its an html file) and read it, using rikai-sama to look up words as I go. The coolest thing is that at a touch of a button, the word I highlight is saved to my Anki deck. I make two cards for each word: kanji to kana/definition and audio to kanji/definition. Although the latter gets kinda hard when you have several homonyms in your deck, I find that it helps to have that auditory stimulus for whatever reason. Since these words came from a book I've read, I have at least seen how they are used, which is really helpful when the definition is a bit vague. Perhaps if you still want to pursue writing, you could write the words out when you get to the audio to kanji cards, although for me that would be pretty slow when you amass thousands of cards...
Anyway, don't regret stoping those RTK reviews if you aren't a diehard for the writing portion. I find that I remember a kanji better when I see it in a few real words than when I have to think of Heiseg's keyword.
Last edited by HououinKyouma (2012 December 07, 11:06 pm)
